Friday, February 1, 2008

Books: Updated List for 2008

Because of the plethora of books on this year's book list, we're doing monthly reviews instead of annual reviews. This will continue until we are, once again, painfully employed.

Having succeeded at taking some 30 books off the list so far, we've added a few more to make sure we don't slack off.

This is the updated list. If we win our bet, that we can read, review, and incorporate these books into the ongoing Book Project, we hope some decent soul offers us a fine meal of sushi and sake to celebrate.

Pretty cheeky, huh?
  1. A Cloistered War - Maisie Duncan
  2. A History of Malaysia - Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Andaya
  3. A History of Modern Indonesia - M.C. Ricklefs
  4. A History of Selangor - J. M. Gullick
  5. A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
  6. A Place Where The Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez
  7. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
  8. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  9. A Will For Freedom - Romen Bose
  10. Abraham's Promise - Philip Jeyaretnam
  11. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
  12. Anthology of Japanese Literature - Donald Keene
  13. Art & Fear - David Bayles & Ted Orland
  14. Asian Labour In The Japanese Wartime Empire - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
  15. Baba Nonnie Goes To War - Ron Mitchell
  16. Between Two Oceans - Murfett, Miskic, Farrell, & Chiang
  17. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
  18. Captives of Shanghai - David H. & Gretchen G. Grover
  19. Chandranath - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  20. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
  21. Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung
  22. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  23. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  24. From Pacific War to Merdeka - James Wong Wing On
  25. Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
  26. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
  27. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
  28. In The Grip of a Crisis - Rudy Mosbergen
  29. Kempeitai, Japan's Dreaded Military Police - Raymond Lamont-Brown
  30. Kempei Tai: The Japanese Secret Service Then And Now - Richard Deacon
  31. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  32. Krait: The Fishing Boat That Went To War - Lynette Ramsay Silver
  33. Kranji - Romen Bose
  34. Labour Unrest in Malaya - Tai Yuen
  35. Lest We Forget - Alice M. Coleman & Joyce E. Williams
  36. Life As The River Flows - Agnes Khoo
  37. Living Hell - Goh Chor Boon
  38. Malay Folk Beliefs - Mohd Taib Osman
  39. Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
  40. Malaysia - R. Emerson
  41. Modern Japan, A Historical Survey - Hane Mikiso
  42. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  43. Night Butterfly - Tan Guan Heng
  44. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
  45. Operation Matador - Ong Chit Chung
  46. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
  47. Outwitting the Gestapo - Aubrac
  48. Palli Samaj (The Homecoming) - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  49. Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
  50. Prehistory of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago - Peter Bellwood
  51. Red Star Over Malaya - Cheah Boon Kheng
  52. Revolt in Paradise - K'tut Tantri
  53. Rosie - Anne Lamott
  54. Rouge of the North - Chang Ai Ling
  55. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
  56. Shantung Compound - Langdon Gilkey
  57. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
  58. Sisters and Strangers (Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills) - Honig
  59. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
  60. Soldiers Alive - Ishikawa Tatsuzo
  61. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
  62. Taming the Wind of Desire - Carol Laderman
  63. The Age of Diminished Expectations - Paul Krugman
  64. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
  65. The Bafut Beagles - Gerald Durrell
  66. The Book of Tea - Okakura Kazuko
  67. The Crippled Tree - Han Suyin
  68. The Double Tenth Trial - C. Sleeman, S.C. Sillein, Eds.
  69. The End of the War - Romen Bose
  70. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
  71. The Life of an Amorous Woman - Saikaku Ihara
  72. The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
  73. The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russell Wallace
  74. The Malayan Union Controversy, 1942-1948 - Albert Lau
  75. The Marquis - A Tale of Syonan-To - S.J.H. Conner
  76. The Nanking Massacre - Katsuichi Honda
  77. The Origins of The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific - Akira Iriye
  78. The Pacific War - Ienaga Saburo
  79. The Plague - Albert Camus
  80. The Price of Peace - Foong Choon Hon, Ed.
  81. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
  82. The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
  83. The War in Malaya - A.E. Percival
  84. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  85. The World of the Shining Prince - Ivan Morris
  86. Three Came Home - Agnes Newton Keith
  87. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  88. Tokyo Rose - Masayo Duus
  89. War & Memory in Malaysia & Singapore - P. Lim Pui Huen, Diana Wong, Eds.
  90. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
  91. Women of China - Bobby Siu
  92. Women, Outcastes, Peasants & Rebels - Kalpana Bardhan
  93. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
  94. You'll Die in Singapore - Charles McCormac
  95. A Choice of Evils - Meira Chand
  96. Force 136:Story of A Resistance Fighter in WWII - Tan Chong Tee
  97. King Rat - James Clavell
  98. Murder on the Verandah - Eric Lawlor
  99. No Dram of Mercy - Sybil Kathigasu
  100. Rehearsal for War - Ban Kah Choon, Yap Hong Kuan
  101. Singa, Lion of Malaya - Gurchan Singh
  102. Singapore The Pregnable Fortress - Peter Elphick
  103. Sinister Twilight - Noel Barber
  104. Sold For Silver - Janet Lim
  105. Syonan - My Story (The Japanese Occupation of Singapore) - Mamoru Shinozaki
  106. The Fall of Shanghai - Noel Barber
  107. The Jungle is Neutral - F. Spencer Chapman
  108. The War Of The Running Dogs - Noel Barber
  109. You'll Never Get Off The Island - Keith Wilson

1 comment:

ThePoliticalCat said...

The Devil at my shoulder wants to know why some of the books show up in fuschia. The answer is, those are the books that I done read already, but need to reread for Teh Book Project. Yerwelcome.